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- Ekberg, John, et al.
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Parental leave — A policy evaluation of the Swedish “Daddy-Month” reform
- 2013
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Ingår i: Journal of Public Economics. - : Elsevier BV. - 0047-2727 .- 1879-2316. ; 97, s. 131-143
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Many governments are making attempts to increase fathers' share of parental leave in order to correct for unequal labor market outcomes. Using Swedish data, we ask whether fathers can be encouraged to take more parental leave in order to mitigate the negative consequences of mothers' career interruptions. The unique data stem from a reform of parental leave, resulting in a clean natural experiment. Data comprise all children born before (control group) and after (treatment group) the date of implementation of the reform, in cohorts of up to 27,000 newborns, mothers and fathers. We find strong short-term effects of the incentives on male parental leave, but no behavioral effects in the household. Fathers in the treatment group do not take larger shares of the leave taken for care of sick children, which is our measure for household work. We also investigate a second data set on fathers' and mothers' long-term wages and employment, without finding evidence for substantial effects of the reform.
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- Ekberg, John, 1970-
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Essays in Empirical Labor Economics
- 2004
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis consists of four self-contained essays in the field of empirical labor economics.The first essay, Nominal Wage Rigidity in the Swedish Labor Market, presents an empirical investigation of the extent of downward nominal wage rigidity on the Swedish labor market. The analysis shows that cuts in nominal basic wages are rare and the skewness of wage change distributions is negatively correlated with the median change, corroborating the existence of downward rigidity. The second essay, Nominal Wage Rigidity and Real Implications for the Swedish Labor Market, is based on a model of proportional downward wage rigidity. Real implications of the estimates are examined, in order to analyze the effects of downward nominal wage rigidity on the NAIRU under different inflation policies. The potential cost of downward rigidity on the long-run unemployment rate is found to be relatively moderate.The third essay, Firm Size -Wage Effect: Fact or Artifact?, investigates the employer size-wage premium. The inclusion of controls for specific occupations and hierarchies has a profound effect on the estimated effect. The control for hierarchies conditional on occupation results in an effect of size on wage that is not necessarily positive.The fourth essay, Sharing Responsibility? Short- and Long-term Effects of Sweden's "Daddy-Month" Reform. In 1995, the Swedish government reformed the parental leave system. The reform constitutes a natural experiment. Comparing two cohorts of newborns, their mothers and fathers over a period of eight years, we look at the number of days mothers and fathers take for parental leave and the number of days for care of sick children. We find that the reform had a strong short-term effect on parental leave by fathers, but that there are no long-run effects on fathers' willingness to increase their part in care for sick children.
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